Award of Specialised Residential Care and Support Services to Act for Kids

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DCSSDS awarded a contract to Act for Kids Limited for specialised residential care and support services.

The service outlet provides four moderate to high residential care places at any one time, with awake worker support for 16 hours per day and sleepover shifts of 8 hours per night, plus an additional 16 hours awake worker support on weekdays, weekends, school and public holidays.

The contract also funds an OOHC Practice Quality Consultant to focus on practice quality and compliance with standards, traveling quarterly to all Act for Kids Safe Houses to provide mandatory training to Residential Support Workers and embed practice and compliance activities.

Valued at AUD 3,748,873 under a limited procurement method, the contract falls under the Social Services category and includes outcome measurement using a Structured Decision Making tool and the Child and Family Services Performance Management Framework.